We performed a comparison between HPE SimpliVity and StarWind Virtual SAN based on real PeerSpot user reviews.
Find out in this report how the two HCI solutions compare in terms of features, pricing, service and support, easy of deployment, and ROI.
"Dedupe, compression, and replication of primary and secondary data, locally and remotely."
"The access, high availability, and interface are the most valuable and important for us. There is one interface for the whole product, which is very important because you have a single pane to view all the infrastructure of a customer. You can improve your data recovery plan or DRP, or you can make a special emergency plan if a disk has any problem."
"Its performance is quite good, and it is also easy to use. One of the biggest benefits is the included backup solution."
"Our customers get a lot more horsepower for a lot less management."
"The solution has integrated backup features that are useful."
"I have saved time and money by moving to the platform."
"Disaster Recovery (DR) with very minimal effort."
"The rate of compression for the data in SimpliVity is the most valuable feature."
"The features that I found most valuable are ease of use of the software that StarWind offers - with the first setup being a bit painful."
"The most valuable feature for us is having the ability to configure our local storage using a limited number of disks and using the StarWind VSAN software to keep the cluster nodes in perfect sync."
"StarWind Virtual SAN is essentially hardware agnostic, allowing us to build out a specific hardware layer based upon the customer's unique requirements."
"The support has been amazing and quick to reply."
"The product has improved the ability to mimic physical SAN environments to demo scenarios and troubleshoot problems."
"Virtualizing data infrastructure with StarWind Virtual SAN improves efficiency and reduces operational costs."
"Quick setup, great support, stability is great"
"It provided the much-needed HA on an extremely low budget."
"Increased storage capacity for big data, something that we have not had."
"HPE could give us more options for server models to chose when using the product. Right now, we can only use the DL380."
"Its price can be improved. Customers always look for better prices. It is more expensive as compared to other products available in the market."
"The technical, commercial, and marketing support is not at the level that it should be. They are not structured well. Other vendors provide better support, such as Dell."
"SimpliVity needs to add support for Hyper-V and KVM."
"The setup was complex, as it has multiple integrations with multiple orients."
"The biggest feature, which should be included, is some method to handle archival backup or cloud-based backup. Where SimpliVIty typically falls down with their data structure is: The longer a backup is kept, the more space it ends up inevitably using. When you get into things that you have to keep for five or seven years for legal requirements or regulatory compliance, then you start taking up a lot of space with these old dead backups that you are probably never going to use again. Being able to offload those to a separate platform or cloud storage location would be ideal."
"Let us populate the entire node; right now, there are 24 slots in a server and you're only allowed to populate 14."
"I see no need for major improvements but there could be some improvements in the form of notifications and the simplifying of maintenance mode."
"New versions of this solution should be tested more thoroughly before the release as we had a few problems with one version due to a bug."
"There needs to be more visibility on how long the cloud replication will take as there is no current ETA."
"We don't really have any issues with this product."
"The documentation could be clearer in terms of explaining the installation."
"The only thing that I have any difficulty with is that in order to perform upgrades, it is required that the SANs be detached from the Hosts before that can happen."
"It would help us if the vendor continues to release software updates for earlier versions of the Windows operating systems."
"I would definitely like to see quite a bit more on the monitoring side of things."
HPE SimpliVity is ranked 5th in HCI with 149 reviews while StarWind Virtual SAN is ranked 4th in HCI with 182 reviews. HPE SimpliVity is rated 8.6, while StarWind Virtual SAN is rated 9.6. The top reviewer of HPE SimpliVity writes "Provides a unified management interface that allows administrators to manage all aspects of the infrastructure". On the other hand, the top reviewer of StarWind Virtual SAN writes "Excellent support, great performance, and good redundancy". HPE SimpliVity is most compared with VxRail, VMware vSAN, Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI), HPE Alletra dHCI and Lenovo ThinkAgile VX Series, whereas StarWind Virtual SAN is most compared with VMware vSAN, Microsoft Storage Spaces Direct, StorMagic SvSAN, Red Hat Ceph Storage and VxRail. See our HPE SimpliVity vs. StarWind Virtual SAN report.
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